Garment hanger



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D. GOLDSMITH GARMENT HANGER Filed Nov. 5, 1920 v INVENTOR.

Patented Sept. 18, 1923.

DAVID GOLDSMITH; OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

- GARMENT HANGER.

Application filed November 5, 1920. Serial No. 421,834;

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, DAVID'GOLDSMITH,,& citizen of the United States. and a resident of Newark, in the-county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment hangers adapted to receive and support long garments such as ladies dresses, coats and the 7 like, in a short compartment, such as a wardrobe trunk, the hanger comprising arms to receive the shoulders of the garment and a head which supports the hanger on hooks, tracks or the like in a vertical plane with the garment inverted and the lower portions thereof draped or hung over the head of the hanger.

The objects of the invention are to provide an improved garment hanger of the character described constructed of wire and Which is at the same time strong and durable; to provide such a hanger comprising a single length of wire doubled upon itself and bent toform a supporting head and garment receiving arms; to provide such a hanger comprising an endless main frame constructed of wire anda second frame within the main frame to reenforce the hanger and provide a rigid and strong construction; to provide a garment hanger of this character having a main frame constructed' of a single piece of wire bent to form a supporting head, body portion and garment supporting arms, an having a second frame formed of a single length of wire arranged within the main frame to reinforce the same and rigidly connect the head and garment receiving arms to prevent the head and garment receiving arms from bending or collapsing under the weight of the garment; and to obtain other results andadvantages as may be brought out by the following description.

' Referring to the accompanyin drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate the same parts throughout the several views,

Figure l is a front elevation of a garment hanger constructed in accordance with my invention;

Figure 2. is a side elevationthereof, and

Figure 3 is a vert cal sectional view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1. I

In the specific embodiment of the invention illustrated, the reference character A designates a single piece of suitably heavy wire which is bent at two intermediate points in its length, as at 1, to form a portion 2, the wire being then returned parallel to the said portion 2 thereof'as at 3 and extending to within a short distance of the center of the said portion 2 to form a head or support for the hanger, said wire being then bent at substantially right angles to said returned portions 3 to form spaced and parallel portions 4. comprising the body of the hanger, the wire being then curved outwardly in opposite directions from said body and inwardly toward the head of the hanger as at 5 and returned upon itselfat 6 to form oppositely extending garment shoulder receiving arms projecting laterally upon opposite sides of the body 4 of the hanger and connected by the portion 7 the extremities of the wire being joined together in any suitable manner as by soldering or brazing to form an endless main frame. The portions 2 and 3 of the frame forming the head or support of the hanger are crimped adjacent their outer ends as at 8 to fit over supporting hooks or tracks such as are ordinarily used in clothes compartments. wardrobe trunks and the like to support the hanger in a vertical plane. The hanger is thus substantially T-shaped. and the head thereof, the garment shoulder receiving arms, and the body 4 are simply and inexpensively formed by doubling the wire upon itself and suitably bending it.

To reenforce the main frame of the hanger and rigidly connect the head thereof and the garment receiving arms to prevent bending or collapsing of th hanger under the weight of the garment, I provide a second frame within the main frame and formed of a single length of wire B doubled upon itself. The frame B is substantially I- shaped in construction and has an enlarged looped end 9 which is connected between the portions 2 and 3 of the head of the hanger, and a body comprised of the spaced and parallel portions 10 which are rigidly connected to the inner sides of the portions at of the body 0f, the main frame, the said portions 10 terminating at. their other ends in an enlarged head 11 connected between the outwardly curved portions 5 of the main frame and the portions 7 thereof connecting the garment receiving arms.

To apply a garment to the hanger, the

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hanger is held in a substantially vertical ps'ition with the garment receiving arms up permost and in a substantially horizontal position, the shoulders of the garment being slipped over the garment receiving arms, after which the hanger'is inverted so as to drape thelower portions ot the garment over the head of the hanger. The hanger is then placed upon the supporting hooks or tracksin the compartment in a vertical plane, the crimped portions 8 of the head otthe hanger receivlng the tracks or hooks.

With this construction it will be seen that.

a two-point suspension garment hanger can be easily and inexpensively formed of Wire and at the same time Withstand the strains hanger under the tveight of the garment,

the portions 10 of the frame B serving to increase the rigidity of the hanger. While I have illustrated and described only one possible embodiment of myinvention it Will be obvious'that many detail modifications and changes can be made inthe construction of the garment hanger by those skilled in the art Without departing from the spiritor scope of theinvention, and I do not desire to be limited in the construction anduse of my invention except as required by the following claim When thelight of the prior art.

Having thus described the invention, What Iclaim is:

construed in a A garment hanger comprising an endless main frame formed of aisingle piece ofwire doubled upon itself to form a body COIHPIIS' mg a pair of spaced and parallel portions;

said Wire at theends of said body extending outwardly in opposite directions and return-. mg inwardly upon itself to form respectively a supporting head and garment supporting arms and a second endless Wire trame-.Witl1in said main frame and rigidly connected to said head, body and garment receiving arms to reentorce the hanger.

DAVID GOLDSMITH. 

